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Where are the whalers?: The whaling wreck site potential of New South Wales

Where are the whalers?: The whaling wreck site potential of New South Wales

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Where are the whalers?: The whaling wreck site potential of New South Wales

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Where are the whalers?: The whaling wreck site potential of New South Wales

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The Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, 1999-01, Vol.23, p.38-43

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When Alex (or was it Alexis?) the whale took a few weeks holiday at Sydney Harbour in August 1999, he/she was recalling a much earlier event in 1790. That year, a midshipman from HMS Sirius was drowned when a whale capsized his party's boat in the harbour (Flannery, 1998: 133). This was not to become an isolated incident, the barque King Oscar bein...

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Where are the whalers?: The whaling wreck site potential of New South Wales

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TN_cdi_rmit_collectionsjats_10_3316_informit_819598115502534

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_rmit_collectionsjats_10_3316_informit_819598115502534

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0813-2801

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1326-0979

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